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CONSTRUCTION WORLD FEBRUARY 2015
A small shopping centre offers a delightful
introduction to Turkish shops, a bakery and
a restaurant. A university is scheduled for
construction in the next two years.
Benefactor, Uncle Ali has quietly moved
on to his next project and handed over the
Nizamiye complex to be run by the Fountain
Educational Trust, a registered SA Non-Profit
Trust run by South Africans. “Lafarge South
Africa is proud to have been involved in this
fascinating project,” comments Lafarge key
accounts manager, Mohammed Hajee. “It
was not the usual fast track contract but
rather an extremely specialised project, in
which we worked closely with the Turkish
experts. It reflects the Lafarge brand base-
line of Building better cities , which embodies
the Group’s ambition to use its innovative
products and solutions to help construct
more durable and beautiful cities.”
Kaytech engineers were consulted to double check
that RockGrid PC would indeed solve the problem. The
100 x 100 kN/m grade of RockGrid PC was considered
most appropriate. One of the special features of this
product is its polyester, nonwoven fleece component
which offers high resistance to installation stresses as
well as optimum hydraulic characteristics. Only Rock-
Grid PC provides sufficient drainage capacity and, due
to its water transmissivity, it facilitates the reduction of
pore water pressure and improves shear characteris-
tics, thereby increasing stability. Ideal advantages for
the problems encountered at Raceway Industrial Park.
On completion of the project, 29 000m2 of RockGrid
PC 100/100 had been installed allowing the contractor
to rapidly construct the required platformwithout using
the expensive conventional method of importing dump
rock and exporting spoil material. Thanks to this time-
saving, economical Kaytech geogrid, millions of rands
were saved on this project.
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Heavy rains and a mix of in-situ material rendered conventional reinforcing
methods ineffective.